There are Seven Principles of Kwanzaa, or Nguzo Saba, that help us to continue building and maintaining unified and empowered communities.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
In July of 1852, Frederick Douglass delivered a speech titled “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?,” a call for the promise of liberty be applied equally to all Americans. Douglass’s speech emphasized that American slavery and American freedom is a shared history and that the actions of ordinary men and women, demanding freedom, transformed our nation.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
Museum scholars explore the origins of Juneteenth, the meaning of freedom and African American cultural traditions.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
In this curatorial discussion, museum scholars examine the historical significance of the holiday and how it came to be.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
As waves of emancipation swept through the country, many African Americans sought to reunite with lost family members and to define family roles and responsibilities in ways they believed best suited their new circumstances. Their efforts highlighted the importance of family as foundational to their status as free people.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
For the nearly four million newly freed, education was a crucial first step to becoming self-sufficient. Between 1861 and 1900, more than 90 institutions of higher education were founded for African Americans.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
The National Museum of African American History and Culture celebrates Black Music Month.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
Juneteenth Community Day| National Museum of African American History and Culture
The "Little Rock Nine," as the nine teens came to be known, were to be the first African American students to enter Little Rock's Central High School. Three years earlier, following the Supreme Court ruling, the Little Rock school board pledged to voluntarily desegregate its schools. This idea was explosive for the community and, like much of the South, it was fraught with anger and bitterness.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
Uprooted Exhibit Artifacts UPROOTED: An American Story Reopened in 2023, this fully rebuilt, technology-enhanced signature exhibit focuses on the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. It explores how they responded to […]| California Museum
What did 2024 look like at Voilà:? Over the years, those retrospectives allow us to capture the progress that has been made.| Voilà:
Discover the impact-driven winners of the 4th Annual Anthem Awards. Learn how organizations are creating lasting change across various causes.| Forum One
The NationSwell Fellows program empowers young people on the margins to stand at the center of driving change for their communities. Join us in supporting a changemaker on the frontlines of our future.| NationSwell
Hear from C-level leaders around their personal stories of mental health and equip yourself with a leader toolkit to spearhead mental health culture change in your own organization.| mindsharepartners
Black students, whether studying at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or predominantly white institutions, came together to create these organizations, forging familial ties to one another and outreach within the larger Black community.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
Juneteenth is an often overlooked event in our nation’s history. On June 19, 1865, Union troops freed enslaved African Americans in Galveston Bay and across Texas some two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.| National Museum of African American History and Culture
